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Connecting the Dots 2014

The Climate, Energy, Food, and Water Nexus

Event Details:

Friday, April 18, 2014

IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY 2014, Stanford experts from a range of disciplines will discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity’s need for and use of climate, energy, food, water, and environmental resources. Featuring key authors of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change.

Professor Chris Field, co-chair of IPCC Working Group II, and members of the Technical Support Group will provide an overview of their major findings. Stanford students and faculty will lead an interactive breakout session on key challenges associated with climate change. A faculty panel—representing WG I, WG II and WG III—will connect the dots by evaluating some of the ways in which decisions in one resource area can lead to tradeoffs or co-benefits in others. Finally Dr. Gro Brundtland, United Nations Elder, will share her reflections on our common future.

 

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Slides

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (pdf) - Chris Field, Katie Mach, Michael Mastrandrea

What Makes Something Anthropogenic Anyway? The Devils in the Details of Climate Policies (pdf) - Aaron L. Strong

So You Think You Can Adapt? Heuristics and Biases in the Perception of Climate Risk (pdf) - Frances Moore and Nik Sawe

Rising Sea Levels: Should I Stay, or Should I Go? (pdf) - Delavane Turner

Speakers

Gro Brundtland, KEYNOTE, United Nations Foundation, The Elders

Stacey Bent, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Chemical Engineering

Chris Field, Professor of Biology, Professor of Environmental Earth System Science

Katharine J. Mach, Sr. Research Associate, Carnegie Science’s Dept. of Global Ecology

Michael D. Mastrandrea, Co-Director of Science, IPCC WG II Technical Support Unit

Lauren Sommer, KQED Public Radio, Science and Environmental Reporter

Noah Diffenbaugh, Environmental Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment

Charles Kolstad, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy

Jon Krosnick, Communications

Terry Root, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Break-out Sessions

Aaron L. Strong, Department of Philosophy at Stanford University

Blake Francis, Department of Philosophy at Stanford University

Deepti Singh, Environmental Earth System Science

Dan Horton, Postdoctoral Researcher at Dept. of Environmental Earth System

Frances Moore, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)

Nik Sawe, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)

Delavane Turner, Management Science and Engineering

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